“Sorry, but I’ve gotta call bull on Marie Claire’s findings,” she wrote. “Seattle’s an okay city for dating, but it’s not great.”

To make its list, Marie Claire looked at the cities with the highest ratio of available men to women, then factored in things like guys’ fitness, mass transit, time of last call at bars and the “ubiquity of Starbucks and movie theaters.”

I called Marie Claire editor Lea Goldman to ask how we came out on top.

“It’s not even just that Seattle’s teeming with single guys. It’s the kind of single guys,” she said. “There are very career minded, ambitious and, frankly, well compensated guys in the area. Yet also there’s a great outdoors scene with an alternative music scene going on.

“It’s a well roundedness that we didn’t see in another city.”

The magazine’s rankings revealed a telling West Coast skew, with cities like Boston, New York and Miami ranked below the top 10.

Among the magazine’s pithy observations about Seattle is that the city is a “haven for green-minded lefties who get as big a thrill rappelling the Cascades as they do ‘coding the architecture'” and that a good pickup line is “Mac or PC?”

The stringer sent to report on Seattle’s dating cred came back ready to pack her bags and move here, Goldman said.

“I feel bad for the blogger (Erika Hobart),” she said. “I almost want to hook her up with some of the fellas we met in Seattle.”

P.S. — Should go without saying, but Seattle definitely has more single men than single women. Thanks to @kingrat for sharing this link.

Update: To Goldman’s offer to set her up with single men in Seattle, Erika Hobart says “No thanks” — and a few other choice things. Read her response here.